Vol 11 No 5 Wednesday May 6 1987 Serving Newtown, Te Aro, Mt Cook, Mt Victoria FREE Labour tops poll A poll conducted by Wellington Polytechnic journalism students in the Wellington electorates indicates that Labour will retain the seats of Wdlington Central and Island Bay. Island Bay secretary of the Clerical by Mary Wilson Workers Union. One in every three National: Sandra Clarke, consultant librarian. people in the Island Democrat: Paul Douche, Bay electorate so far retired company director. Wellington Polytechnic students joined their Victoria University colleagues in a seems undecided who march on Parliament to protest against moves by the Government to introduce to vote for in this Wellington the user pays principle into tertiary education. year's general Central election. by Andrea McKay Journalism students polled Labour's Fran Wilde 53 Island Bay electors in the should retain the Multi -culturalism attracts week before Easter as part of Wellington Central an overall poll of 500 voters seat at this year's in greater Wellington. general election, Forty-seven percent said parents to Mt Cook School they would vote Labour, 17 according to a recent b An N b emphasis on fa'a Samoa or and children alike would yards and a Polytech percent National while 34 telephone poll. .'Y ne . ew ery Taha Maori." overcome any physical extension block. pcr;;ent ,,i:re unllecided. Two­ The poll .x·.;d;.::td bj' White flight does Insn,ad, he said, newly disarlv~tagc the school has. " As the inner city is thirds of the undecided voters Wellington Polytechnic affect Mount Cook arrived families would look Despite these problems the redeveloped yuppies (young, said they voted Labour last­ journalism students in the School said Principal at alternative schools school role has increased, up upwardly mobile time. week before Easter shows 53 Ken Wilson. because of the strong multi- 32 . from its expected professionals) start moving Labour's Frank O'Flynn percent supporting Labour, The phenomenon of cultural emphasis at Mount OJ?,Cmng role total of 11~. . back into the inner city holds the seat with a 21 percent National, 2 European families moving Cook School. For a school of this size buying up old houses. majority of 6007. He is percent Democrat, 6 percent their children from schools " When (families) move that ~s ~ally quite a lot." They most often remodel retiring at the general other minor parties, 19 which predominantly into the area they have to This is because many other and refurbish these houses." election. percent uncommitted. are is termed " choose whether to send their parents wanted a school that As a result, many Island Bay has remained Of those polled 40 percent =~:~g1~[~ children to one of the two ~co~nis~ theU: cultural Polynesian families are largely untouched by the were male and 60 percent multi-cultural schools identity said Mr Wilson. being " squeezed out " and recent electoral boundary female. Mr Wilson could recall Newtown and " We're a multi-cultural must look elsewhere for changes. The northern Most said they would not only three or four instances Mount Cook· or the two school and everything we do houses and schools said Mr boundary has been extended be changing their votes from of European parents less multi-cul~ral schools - reflects that." Wilson. slightly on the slopes of Mt the 1984 snap election. withdrawing children from Te Aro and Clyde Quay." Since its establishment in ,..;.;.s.;.;.;o;.;;.;.._L_I_D__ A_I_R_--, Victoria. However, 4 percent of Mount Cook School and " Parents may well come to 1875 the school has catered The random sample of Labour voters intend to vote then sending them to a Mount Cook School, have a for children of lower socio- RECORDS voters were asked three National, and 12 percent of predominantly European look at it and decide they economic groups. questions: National voters will vote school. want their child to go " This has always been a * Who they voted for in Labour this year. " White flight doesn't somewhere else." school where the children of the .1984 snap election. The issue concerning most apply to this school in This was because of the less successful, the less 170 Vivian St * How they would vote if people was the economy, terms of a family being inadequate funding amongst affluent come." Wellington the country went to the polls particularly interest rates, established here and then schools said Mr Wilson. Formerly a residential area, in the next few days. closely followed by moving their children Parents inspecting Mount the houses around Mt Cook BUY SELL * What they considered the unemployment and the because they don't like our Cook School would see School were replaced by most important issue to nuclear issue. children working in old light industry so that today TRADE Sitting MP Fran Wilde has them. fashioned classrooms with it is enclosed on three sides Mand~ to Saturday Those who are uncommitted had a high profile over the bare boards and inadequate by factories, car-wreckers From 10am at present saw past three years with her lighting. unemployment, sponsorhsip of the This, in comparison to superannuation and Homosexual Law Reform other schools with carpeted dissatisfaction with Labour Bill. She is standing again or vinyl floors and bright as important issues. for Labour. sunny classrooms , might PUBLISHING DATE The National candidate this well diminish Mount Cook Three parties have so far year is John Feast who stood named candidates for the School's advantages to for the New Zealand Party in parents. election: Wellington Central for the Labour: Elizabeth Tennet, Mr Wilson said he hoped 1984 snap election. Ken Wilson the warmth shown by staff

AN .UPSIDE DOWN AGM next publishing date by Jeni Porter general meeting will be held Brian Bray, Annabel Taylor, increased because of a very "An upside down on May 18 before the Ros Grant, Jack Jensen, successful market day and AGM," is how normal monthly meeting. Vaughan Rosier and Arthur increased membership, said will be June 9 Annabel Taylor, A lack of nominations or Lewis. Mr Rosier. chairperson of the willing volunteers for The treasurer's report He said the deficit of chairperson meant the next showed expenses had $253.20 for the year showed Newtown Residents business - election of 1987- increased from $428.40 for the need for an increase in Association, described 88's officers could not go 1985-86 to $1305.68 for subscriptions. Both the Newtown office and this year's event. ahead. It was decided that a 1986-87. " Without more money we The difficulties began when committee be elected and Vaughan Rosier, treasurer, can't do everything we want the Polytechnic office the minutes for last year's they could organise officers said the increase was because to do", he said. agm were not available at their next meeting. of rising costs of producing will be closed over the because secretary Robin Fry The committee members the monthly newsletter. school holidays. had been unexpectedly called are: Jenny Giles, Dianne Advertising leaflets for to Auckland. The minutes Morris, Jonathon Hunt, membership had been an were locked in her house. Harry Fraser, Mark Trafford, added cost. As a result a special Leonie Stieller, Ham Baxter, Income was substantially Porirua and Manukau," she said. Of sealing wax The library is the only public library in the More Cook islands serving a population of 9500. and things, , • It is well used with a current membership of 3000 and an annual issue of 23,000 books. There's nothing better than "When I order books I always keep in mind than snuggling up on the couch for a that we are catering first for the Islanders and second for expatriots (mainly seconded cosy Saturday night watching the officers from NZ and Australia working on box. contract for the government). just a Well, almost nothing. But even the simple "The library is considered by some to be a things in life don't always go to plan. Just as Clint Eastwood was giving me the white man's institution, but we're trying to wink (again) and as I was popping the fourth overcome that by having programmes to soft-centered choc into my mouth ... reach out to the community. It's not easy, Anna Keedwell, a 16-year-old horrors of horros, a mouse! library but we're getting there. from Wellington High School, It ran to the middle of the floor, looked at "When I look back and see the growth and who has just spent a dream week me, looked at my soft-centered, looked back on the sail training ship Spirit of at me, deliberately sneered and took off under by Mary Wilson what my staff and I have achieved. I think we've done marvellously with limited funds Adventure. the stereo. Twenty years ago Carmen Temata Now, two questions immediately spring to and resources but lots of determination." The week on board with 40 became the first Cook Island mind. other teenagers cost $460. Had I really been crouching, feet up on the librarian. In 1987 she's still the Mrs Temata first came to NZ on a The Spirit of Adventure Trust arm of the couch without anyone telling only Islander to have trained in government scholarship in 1962. She spent runs the sail training scheme. Its me? Or had I in the split second between New Zealand. a year at New Plymouth Girls High School main aim is to develop mouse glances managed to automatically before beginning her library training. leadership and co-operation assume the mouse-defence position, learnt "We haven't had anyone trained under the among the young. over many years of being a "girl"? And secondly, why the hell did it have to New Zealand system since I qualified," she "While I was training I had no idea what look at me? said. "A year after I started the New Zealand sort of library I was going back to. I knew Being an equal-payed woman of the 80's, I Library Association certificate course that a committee was trying to establish a HELPING did what I'd been brought up not to do: changed. It's impossible now for Islanders to library ...then that the building was finished yelled for a man to kill it! (Men are train under the present system because you and a NZ librarian was setting it up." BLACK wonderful, absolutely wonderful, especially have to come to Wellington for block at putting out the rubbish and killing things courses." like spiders and mice). She was awarded her certificate in May STRUGGLE "A trap, that's what's needed," said my 1967 and went back to Rarotonga to take up by Michelle Rush knight in shining armour. She said some sort of financial assistance the position of chief librarian in charge of A Mt Victoria group is So he skewered a peice of cheese with his was needed. "We can't send people home the recently completed library. contributing to the liberation trusty com-cob holder and put it on a saucer periodically. It's too expensive. What we've struggles of South African black in the middle of tbe floor. Next came the got going now is a certificate in "I was really pleased to find it so well people. empty icecream container, which was librarianship course run by the University of propped up over the cheese by a freshly established. I carried on from where the NZ They are a committee of the Mt Victoria removed red wine cork, with a long piece of South Pacific in Rarotonga. librarian left off, making my own mistakes. Presbyterian Church who support the Nyanga string tied round it. To me it was a real challenge because I was Project. And for the 'piece de la resistance' was I, "It can be done by correspondence which is thrown in at the deep end. It was my first The Nyanga ~oject supports Celeste sitting at the end of the string patiently m marvellous. So far, one person has finished Santos-Roberts her community waiting. real experience doing library work. All my development work in the squatter camps the course sucessfully. Two others in my time in NZ while I was studying I was more Now the theory was great. The cheese, the around Capetown, South Africa. wine, the promise of things to come . . . the library are finishing this year." or less an office junior. I was unpacking, Celeste is a teacher and community worker. trap was perfect. stamping and repairing books, and did very She runs a wide variety of programmes,the Perfect in all but one. No mouse. Mrs Temata attended the NZ Library little ordering, classification or overall aim being to build up some trust and Clint had run his gauntlet, the knight's Association conference recently. She visited cataloguing." hope between races as her part in building a shining armour (or is that amour) had new, free South Africa. some libraries and institutions including Mrs Temata sees the Cooks Islands Library detinitely dulled and, the pull mechamsm on ' National Archives. She explained that the Her programmes include workshops on the mouse trap was getting cramp. developing into an educational and cultural conllict resolution and human relations,' That's about the time I started to seriously Cook Island public library houses the centre. Already the library, museum and accountancy and typing skills and training national collection. archives are ~mused under one roof. ponder the 1.Q. of a mouse versus a man skills for other community workers. She also (after all, the silly trap wasn't my idea). "The USP has amalgamated its library with runs Xhasa classes for whites -Xhasa is the ours and now have all the centre's library "Part of my job is to collect everything main African language in this area -in the It didn't take me too much longer to published in the Cook Islands language. On materials. . They only keep the relevant hope of getting better communication realisse all wasn't as at first it seemed. this trip I'm also offering my services to course textbooks." between black and white people. Her home is also a "safe" house,where libraries who want Cook Island material." She would like to see the library extended The outcome of it all? Mouse I.Q. 120; people can meet or come for support away man 1.Q. 110; woman of the 80's? ... well, to provide a proper reading and study room from the tense atmosphere of the squatter Mrs Temata would like NZ libraries to have for students. I'll let you know when I get down off the settlements. couch! by Karina Barrymore. more • contact with pacific Island librarians. Committee spokesperson.Graham Howell "Perahps assisting staff to come to NZ and Meanwhile, the chief librarian remains outlined how they are helping Celeste. see how larger libraries operate, especially enthusiastic. "I really like my job. It's "Our aims are to generally promote what Next time you cruise into the in Polynesian communities like Newtown, something I've never regretted taking on." Celeste is doing to raise funds and contribute to Celeste's salary and operating costs". gas station and "fill 'er up" make The group also sends letters and educational resources, and because they are sure you don't get the petrol and Christians,offer spiritual support through diesel bowsers mixed up ... prayer. "To give people the means to support Yes it is possible, as a friend Paul found themselves ...that 's the concept we're trying out last week. to approach it from," says Graham Howell. The project has been going almost 12 What a hassle, he said ... months now.Last year,$1200 was raised for First he had to siphon out the diesel, then Celeste.This year's activities will include a when he refilled with petrol his car wouldn't fundraising dinner on June 5 at go because of traces of diesel still in the "Crossways",the Mt Victoria Presbytarion works ... so a second siphoning session .. Church community house.and a sponsored Then there's the constant rhubarbs from so­ run on September 12, which is Steve Biko's called friends .. anniversary. The group would like more people to And the final insult came when he tried to become actively involved.Graham get the gas station where the saga began to DENIM JACKETS FROM 37.95 stresses,"you don't have to be a Christion". help him dispose of the five gallons of If any one would like to help either diesel/petrol he had accumulated. Not only practically of financially, please contact KNITWEAR FROM 27.95 would they not take it off his hands, bur Graham Howell at 46 Brougham Street, Mt they suggested he put it down a stormwater Victoria (phone 844-770), or Nyanga Project secretary Ralph Pannett (phone 844892). drain. by Jeni Porter. SHIRTS FROM 17.95 I FROM ,.I SWEATSHIRTS 17.95 ~; ( -~'i I J JEANS FROM 27.95

..5hanto11 Ascot Building .. Riddiford St .. Newtown 107 Queens Drive Lydney Place 16-20 BOND ST LOWER HUTT PORIRUA EVERY FRIDAY 9.30-SPM - SATURDAY 9.30-SPM (off Willis St) FASHION MANUFACTURERS WELLINGTON phone 129.. 329 DIRECT TO THE PUBLIC Stall enquiries: 2 Fun aplenty for kids these school holidays by Rochelle Joseph duration of the holidays, With the May School These will be held from holiday approaching, lOam-2.30 pm at the zoo's parents will be pleased Archibald Centre. Activities will include tours, train and that many activity iand-cruiser rides, games and programmes haye been craft activities. organised in the inner Children aged between 7 city. and 12 can attend at a price Community Centre of $4 each. There is a limit The Newtown Community of 25 children per day. Centre have organised Two supervisors and full children's activity time zoo staff will be co­ programmes for both weeks ordinating activities by John Wab'h of the holidays. City Library They are to. run from 1Oam Wellington Public Library Rugby League Park Big plans -3 pm and· will be co: will hold story times from in Newtown may one After school care day be hosting inter­ ordinated from the centre, 10am-10.45am for the full for park national matcbes. also using the facilities of two weeks excluding Fridays. These are for younger However, the sight of Newtown Library , Newtown has back to wall rampaging Kiwis will not cost around $100,000 .The children and will include Primary School and the be seen there for a few W.R.F.L. will meet half the adventure playground. films , games and mural by Ashley Lee years yet, says Bill cost and the Wellington Various supervised making. For children over Mount Cook School's Miss Hoffman believes the Cooney, chairman of .the Rugby Union will pay for activities are planned 10 , a video will be screened after school care multicultural nature of Mount Wellington Rugby Football the remainder. The new Cook school has something League. facilities will be shared by including two day trips, the at 2pm on May 13 and 20. scheme may face Newtown Library to do with the low numbers Plans to develop the park the two. first to the Rimutaka Forest closure because of lack of children needing after to an international standard This type of co-operation Newtown Library is Park. of support, says school care. are to be implemented over "is what sport should be all There is no limit to the holding a Pia Pia or happy Frances Hoffman, several years, says Mr about", said Mr Cooney. number of children who can time. supervisor of the "There are predominantly Cooney. · Future plans for the park attend. This will run for the full scheme. Maori and Pacific Island At the end of the current include a lighting system The activities are all free two weeks excluding Fridays, children at the school", she season, a new drainage for night matches. Money said, " and their mothers system will be installed as the programme is funded from llam-12, lpm-4 . All Miss Hoffman who has had though, provides a tend not to work or there are and the ground returfed. The stumbling block. on donations. Parents, if ages are welcome. a cut in wages, said the programme runs on the bare relations able to look after intention is to tum the The lowest estimate so far they wish, can present a On chosen days there will the children". park into an all-weather received is $400,000 be exhibitions of Samoan, minimum of funds, all of small koha. which come from parents. ground, says Mr Cooney. which, according to Mr The community centre said Indian and Maori song, According to Miss The drainage system will Cooney, is beyond the it is advisable for children to dance and craft. Two puppet The scheme needs at least Hoffman, Mr Ken Wilson, club's present means. enroll at the centre but they shows will be arranged, dates seven full time students to principal of Mount Cook school has been very can attend on the day. for these are not yet be economically viable. At ano visits The programme supervisor finalised. present there are only five supportive, regularly. Elinor Scarlett will oversee Other activities include full time and two part time Slow Boat colouring contests, games, students. the activities. At four dollars a day the The scheme is run from a films and stories. Zoo Mount Cook scheme is decrepit building to one side Records Welington Zoo are running cheaper than other similar of the school. children's fun days for the ones. During the summer holidays the building was Wanted to buy broken into and the Records and tapes old and new New image for hostel offenders lived in it for some We travel anywhere and pay time. By Nicky Baird hostel's name to avoid "My aim is to make this good prices for LPs and 45s The Hanson Street confusion with a proposed place clean and responsible half-way house for They painted the windows Hostel has a new name with twenty-four hour and stole a lot of the and a new image. psychiatric patients in the management. I want it to be area. equipment said Miss a place where parents can Hoffman. 191 Cuba St Ph: 851-330 The new owner intends that send their kids and know From April 1, the hostel, Hanson Lodge will cater for Open from 1Oam each day previously owned by the they'll be well looked after," Lack of funds has meant a wider range of young he said. Department of Labour, has people, from back-packers to that they have been unable been under new management. to replace some equipment. those looking for a more There are no plans to We specialise in collectors' records permanent place to stay. change the style of running The hostel is now called "I hope to take it away The children in after school Hanson Lodge. "This is to the hostel in the foreseeable care paint, learn to dye from a traditional public future. give it a fresh start," said service hostel and make it cloth, swim and go for the Wellington businessman more like a budget walks. who has bought the hostel. Hanson Lodge will remain aro paints accommodation hostel for open for "quite some time" He did not wish to be young people," he said. Recently they baked named. although the owner said he biscuits using the facilities Hanson Lodge will now be could not predict what might open all year instead of at the. school. . Stockists of -~ He said it was also happen to it in the long closing down over term. paints/ decorat irig·supplief: necessary to alter the Christmas. Without more support the scheme may close. *Carrara plaster TREES TO IMPROVE NEWTOWN STREETS *Ashley wallpapers .. by Anne Maski.ll well and some have died". encourage renovation by Corporation and the *Painting equipment to· hir.e· The city council will Coromandel, Owens and entering into a social remaining two thirds from be planting trees in Daniel streets are contract with residents. We the council. Neighbourhood Improvement build play areas, plant trees some Newtown streets Areas ( N .I.A.) and will also and control traffic · using The types of trees to be this winter be planted with trees this speed humps sometimes planted are not yet known, See us at Angus A venue will be winter. planted with trees." but in the past Banksia, planted out for the first time The N .I.A. programme has Alder, Birch and Eucalyptus while Daniel, Normandy and been operating since 1979 Members from the trees have been used. 104 Aro St and Princess streets,and as part of the urban renewal planning office of the city Ph 844-792 Kenwyn Terrace will have programme. council work closely with Should residents require any Open 9-5.30 some trees replaced. The It was set up initially to residents associations of the information about replacement plantings are to assist residents to renovate N.I.A.s to draw up plans for renovating houses, or the Mon-Fri be carried out because, Chris their houses. Peter Healy of the area. N.I .A., they should contact All day.Sat Rutherford of the Wellington the City Council Planning the Renovation Office at City Council said, "some Office said, "The scheme One third of the funding Kilbemie, phone 872 618 or trees are not growing very now aims to complement and comes from the Housing 873 621. a network of people and given her better insight into the community's needs. She Annabel aims to reflect these needs in the centre's ) programmes. • Following on from the centre's previous co­ ordinator, Ms Pat Holden, Annabel wants to Newtown AGM serving see the centre used more fully used in daytime hours. Constitutional problems prevented a • • " The committee is quite keen to see the decision on raising subscriptions to $4-$5, centre develop on a drop in basis ... but this $2 for unwaged. Two motions about fees 1n a needs careful planning and we are looking at were carried over till the special general ways to develop the idea". meeting. According to Annabel, this presents a A grant received two or three years ago problem for the centre in that the economic and currently in the association's nursery new role situation has created more double income account, will be spent in the next three families. This means that there is no longer months on the Owen Street community by Alex Coubrough as great a pool of people at home during the garden. The Newtown Community Centre day to use the centre. That makes it more The association now has nearly 350 is hive of activity at the best of difficult to find enough voluntary support to members. Ham Baxter was given a "big run day-to-day programmes for those who are vote of thanks" for his efforts in this area. times, and this morning is no Prominent new members are Sir Paul and r exception. housebound. Lady Reeves. " You have to look at planning these The newly appointed co-ordinator, Annabel Newtown had lost 50 houses in the last I' Taylor sits behind a cluttered desk, signing things in the long term,otherwise things can year, and it was important to protect the cheques and going through ledgers with the so easily drift apart", she said. housing stock in the area, said Mrs Taylor treasurer. The centre's main function is organising in her report. Annabel is learning the ropes of her new school holiday programmes, involving the It had been a very busy year, she said, with job. As co-ordinator of the centre, she liases school, Newtown librairy, Health Centre and two major town planning hearings, with the groups using the centre and ensures the adventure playground. · Annabel Taylor: serving Newtown submissions on the Newtown planning Classes held during the day range from in a new role. review and close liaison with Newtown's its smooth running. 11 She comes to the job with a wealth of cooking to childrens' art and these are run community centre. experience, having been involved with the from term to term. Her husband Neville is a southern ward Honorary life membership was awarded to community centre for as long as she has The centre is used every night by theatre, councellor. She says he has been very Betty Pitt for her many years of work in the been living in the area; 10 years. craft and fitness groups. supportive to both the residents' association Newtown area. She was praised for the She served her apprenticeship on a Activities are also arranged for the elderly; and the community centre by supporting garden opposite Wellington Hospital which committee level, both as chairperson and as care and craft being very popular with them. applications to council for development she kept for many years, and also for her secretary, and this has given her a good The centre tends to offer the classes first to funds. efforts · in the community garden in Owen working knowledge of running the centre. see how popular they are, and keeps them Last year they decided to sell their Street. Miss Pitt also provides flowers for Annabel has been actively involved in going if th demand is there. Cooking, craft Newtown house and look for another in the the Newtown library. other areas of community services. She was and life skills programmes are perennial area. Things didn't go quite .according to A town planning talk by Brett McKay had a founding member of the Newtown stayers. plan and the Taylors found themselves living to be postponed until the next meeting. Community Health Association in 1979 And Annabel says it's a lot of fun, with in Island Bay. They're happy there, but, " This meant that the association's the tutors getting as much out of it as the Newtown is a great place to live", she said. " submissions to the council on new height. (which now operates as the Newtown Health controls will not be done until after the next Centre), a committee member of the participants. We've really enjoyed our time here, where At 36, Annabel is married with two there are so many worthwhile facilities". meeting. Newtown Playcentre and a member of the City councillor John Gilbethorpe gave a Newtown Residents' Association for ten children. Her son Liam is nearly 15 and The Newtown community centre is high on attends Wellington Boys' High and her Annabel's list of worthwhile community brief talk on council matters which affect years. Newtown. These communitv interest~ have estahlishecl daughter Mairin goes to Island Bay school. resources.

FLA.TMATES COME IN ALL SHAPES. • • by Marilyn Cox early, buzzing above the city in a Cessna, Suzanne is watching television. She won't mouth. One morning there was a cigarette When you put an · ad in the paper catching the sun's gleam. - aQ.d Suzanne is come out She's been there all day. She's hole in her new armchair. She said it was my asking for a flatmate you don't asleep. watched; Beauty and the Beast, Days of our Jap who had done it, but she didn't know. It know who will turn up. In a place I go into her room to wake her daughter up Lives, The Young and the Restless, The could have been hers. I had to give her $20 for school and Suzanne is lying there in full Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters and at because of the hole." like central Wellington where a regalia; her bright red mouth hanging open, roof is hard to find you might get least three times a video tape of the last Shelly lives in Australia now. Suzanne her pillow stained orange with make up. Her Miss Universe contest. explains that she wants to come back, but 20 phone calls. I'm not very good shoes and studded leather belt are lying on Later when everybody has gone home and someone sent the Social Welfare a letter at sorting through the long string the floor. the kids are asleep, I ask Suzanne, "Why explaining how she was fraudulently of people who come trapesing in to Suzannes daughter is a chirpy little six year didn't you come out?'' collecting a domestic purposes benefit, and look at the room. Do we like the old with Japanese eyes. Who's my father?" I She says she has nothing to talk about she can't. She owes the NZ Government too same music, eat the same food? once heard her ask - as though the idea of with all those people. "You've all got jobs. much money. Anyway why choose to live with fathers had only just occured to her. "I don't All I do is go down to the boats." Suzanne still admires her - the way she know," Suzanne told her angrily. Suzanne is "That's pretty interesting", tell her. could fight, the way she looked when she someone who is exactly like you? proud of her daughter's Japanese beauty. You can learn a lot from flatmates. "What do you do down there?" got dressed up; "stunning", and the way she Suzanne is 22 and has two children. "Nothing much. We get drunk, we go to wasn't frightened_of anybody. For nearly six months last year I Another daughter lives in Auckland with a sleep. then we wake up and fight" Suzanne is is frightened of almost shared a flat with someone I still , sister. When she first came to flat with me "Why do you keep going down there then?" everyone. She takes taxis everywhere feel incredulous about. she was three, or maybe four months "Habit. I'm scared I might miss out on because she is frightened of approaching At half past five in the morning there's a pregnant and needed an abortion. something." strangers and asking for directions. If she banging on the front door. It's Suzanne, still She's not very organised when it comes to "What about money?" hears a bunch of school kids laughing as she drunk from a party down on the boats last contraception. I keep telling her, "Go down "Money too." walks from the school in the afternoon with night One shoe is broken, her hair is and organise something at the family "How did you first start going down to the her daughter, she's thrown off balance for an dishevelled and she wants some money to planning clinic", but she finds it hard to face boats?" entire evening, thinking they were laughing pay the taxi waiting outside. It's a morning people in the daytime, sober. "When I was young, about 13 or 14, I used at her. like many others. Tonight is Guy Fawkes night and a group to make cups of coffee for Japanese at my It's a strange contrast to hear her ringing I go back to bed feeling a bit peeved about of people are lighting fireworks in the back sisters place. They used to give me $50 just up the Harbour Master and asking what ships the taxi. I have lent Suzanne more money garden. A gang of children - mine, Suzanne's for taking them a coffee. One night I was at are in port and then see her go swaying off than I want to think about. I can smell toast daughter and four or five belonging to a night club with a friend. We had no money down to the wharf with her long beads and hear her in the kitchen. By the time I visiting friends, are dancing about, shouting, so we got these Japanese men to buy us swinging, wearing black and hot orange and wake up an hour and a half later the sky waving sparklers, shrieking as sky rockets drinks. My friend was just going along with her hair piled high. She has an amused, self through my bedroom window is a promising fly into the night it because she was with me. She didn't really assured smile glued on her face. Which soap shade of pale blue, some high flyers up Inside, in the dark cave of her room, like them, but me, I like Japanese men." opera queen wears that smile? "'What about when you get old? What arc Strange t.o hear her arguing in the midcUe of you going to do then?" the night, asking in Japanese for money. "Some girls who go down to the boats are The Ministry of Tourism should be pleased HUMAN RELATIONS pretty old. There's Cheryl. She's about 40. to note that some members of this front line But when I'm that old I want to be more ip the hospitality industry have learnt to settled." speak the most relevant parts of the CENTRE Being settled to Suzanne means owning a Japanese language. house, a car and having enough money to It's strange too that she only ~ants what I .pay for electricity in one big advance sum so once wanted. Term 2 Courses starting 2 June .there's no more bills to worry about. Ten years ago I badly wanted a house. I But saving money isn't easy. She collects worked in the early mornings making her domestic purposes benefit fortnightly. sandwhichcs and late at night nursing old Assertiveness She pays me the rent and then she's off on a people, collecting low wages, swallowing mad spending spree; buying chocolate bars insults from power mad employers, putting and icecreams, riding around town in taxis, up with it because I wanted the job and I Stress management visiting hairdressers and buying new clothes wanted the money. and toys for her daughter. Within about three It was pretty rough, but I think Suzannes Taking charge of your life days it's all gone. way is rougher. There's all the social Once she did try to save. contempt to begin with and then alot of "When I was fifteen I thought I was abit physical danger - alcohol, drugs, violence, Listening skills young and foolish so I gave all my money VD, cervical cancer. Most prostitutes, said to Shelly - an older prostitute she was living the doctor at Wellington's VD clinic, don't with - to bank. I was getting $ I 50 nearly live pa~t 45. Death and dying every second night. Aft.er a year I thought I It's early November and the Japanese must have saved up quite abit and asked fishing season in Wellington is just Working with people Shelly to show me my bank book. There was beginning. Suzanne is drawing up her only $50 there. When I asked for my money calculations, working on the basis of $150 a she dragged me around by the hair. I've still night. Phone Joan Gault, Wellington Polytechnic got a sore ear from when she beat me up." I hope she manages to buy her house. 850-559 extension 8782 mornings "I was frightened of Shelly - mostly of her hope she can be that single minded.

4 Arthur is special: WILL HE COPE WITH INTEGRATION INTO EDUCATION?

by Rae Nicholl Here I am How are you this morning A beam of sunlight strikes the How are you this morning rocking horse dozing beneath the Very well I thank you window of the old Nikau Street Please sit down house. Please sit down." It's ten o'clock on a beautiful autumn The small boy in a smart grey and red morning. the children sit around the piano jersey rocks from side to side on his knees, with helping adults to support their small eyes unfocused. bodies when necessary. The pianist ripples "Arthur's tum now," the pianist says. A her fingers along the keys. teacher clasps Arthur firmly in her arms and The music session starts, the adults singing moves his limbs appropriately, singing the lustily, the children doing the best they can. words for him. "Where is Sophie The group choruses, "please sit down, Where is Sophie please sit down," and Arthur sinks back to Here I am his knees and starts rocking again. Arthur, who is severely autistic, is one of 16 children at the IHC's Junior Centre in Newtown. Their range of disability covers Down's syndrome, delayed intellectual development, emotional problems and Nikau Street teacher Jill Campbell with Arthur chromosome disorders. his chest Senior teacher Dawn Wood says there is a this morning. Usually he can't resist "Arthur loves the trampoline and he enjoys anything metal and bangs the spoon against move to integrate these children into bouncing the doll up and down. We are mainstream pre-schools and schools. Three his teeth," she explains. ~ing to help him develop some living Nikau Street children together with a teacher No sooner has she spoken than Arthur is skills, as well as language, by using the tapping the spoon vigorously on his teeth. will be going to a local kindergarten daily, doll." She takes it away from him, gives him a children like Arthur who need a lifetime of She hands the child a brush and he clumsily specialist help. · hug, then ushers him out. Arthur's langauge bangs it over the doll's hair. Margaret is Arthur receives individual attention to help session is over. delighted. "Very good, Arthur, very good "These children really need the one-to-one him understand his world. "We had a indeed." breakthrough recently," says Mrs Margaret assitance they get here, Dawn Wood says. She brings out a plastic bowl and a metal Pennington, who teaches the non-verbal "The Education Department is very spoon and pretends to feed the doll. She enthusiastic about integration and some of children to speak on a one-to-one basis. hands him the spoon and, using the handle, "Arthur is nearly five, but we have to help our children will be down at the local he pokes it roughly into the doll's face. kindergarten soon. I hope they receive the himdress and undress, and then one day he Gently, Margaret turns the spoon around and pulled his arm out of his jacket by him.srlf. same amount of help as they do at present - he makes an effort to feed the doll again. - it will be interesting to see how it works Such a small thing, but very significant. "Very good, Arthur, you are doing so well "Autistic children often have illogical fears out." and desperately need routine. We still have no idea what causes autism - it's a mystery handicap. The children live in a world of their own and communication is their main problem." Throughout the session Margaret Pennington stresses simple nouns (ball, doll, spoon) and at the same time using sign language in an effort to relate to the child. "Arthur has some eye contact with adults Specialised Chemical and that's very encouraging, but he is showing no signs of speaking." Margaret brings a smiling doll out of a bag Products and holds it up in front of Arthur. his eyes roll and his hands cross randomly in front of Senior teacher Dawn Wood with For a free estimate Sophie. CALL $700,000 retrofit NOW III~ for student hall MAGNA-DRY® by Maria Slmk Bad plumbing in the 80-year-old house Victoria House, one of Victoria known for years as "Victoria A" has made A PATENTED CARPET DRY CLEANING SYSTEM University's halls of residence, is conditions unliveable. Last year only half undergoing a retrofit. the possible number of residents were able to stay in the house. (04) 898-013 Renovations to the tune of $700,000 have Students living in the house in previous begun on number 282 The Terrace, Victoria years had to put up with blocked toilets and For carpets drapes lounge House's original hostel building. similar plumbing failures. fabrics etc. The work is the first stage in a plan to upgrade all five of the student hostel's old houses. Escalating costs have forced the abandonment of earlier plans to replace the The plumbing, repiling and renovating hostel's five old houses with a modem work has reduced student numbers by 34 for concrete block. NOWADAYS THE MOST MODERN SYSTEM six months of this academic year. This aggravates the already serious shortage of The new plan to renovate the existing DEVELOPED BY MAGNA-DRY student accommodation in Wellington, says houses will leave their exteriors unchanged, GUARANTEES YOU: Mrs Beatrice Averill, chairperson of Victoria a solution more in tune with other · current House's executive committee. The total development on The Terrace. number of residents at the hall usually *Not only clean-carpets but dry carpets exceeds 180. Mrs Averill anticipates a bill of $1 million *No musty odours as water is not used to complete the renovations. Fund-raising The loss of accommodation has meant the efforts are planned by the voluntary society *No shrinkage or detergent residues number of students inhabiting the concrete which administers Victoria House. main block has this year swollen from 112 One significant source of income the hostel to 124. has is from rent during the university r------1 Mrs Averill said former lounge rooms are holidays. being used as double bedrooms to squeeze Also avaUable wholesale and retail students in. The hostel facilities can be hired by conferences, tours and the like at a very Chemical products in bulk or litre Number 282 is the first to be given a reasonable cost. $38.50 will buy a bed and quantities to your specifications facelift because it was in the worst state of three meals a day .. Those interested can repair. contact Mrs Averill on 785 719. Help! Stepping Out worth ago by Sharon Lippert directly if they like. we need For beneficiaries who As well as encouraging have been housebound people to use community for a long time, resources for support, the Stepping Out is scheme offers opportunities something to consider. to meet others, use some recreation time well and It is a pilot scheme aimed possibly gain skills for at people who have been on future employment. the unemployment, widows Bamardo's, Birthright, the or domestic purposes Labour and Social Welfare benefits for some time. departments, Harbour City bodies "The emphasis is on characteristics that all Skills, Inner City Ministry, by Christopher personal choice" said Judy Morehu Social Services, City Macann volunteers must share are a Pratt, who chairs the local willingness to listen and the Council community services, Wellington Citizens Stepping Out committee. Unemployed Workers Union ability to be completely non­ People will be sent an Advise Bureaus are judgemental." and YWCA are all helping information kit and invited with the scheme. looking for volun­ The Newtown branch is to take part in the scheme. teers. very busy, it receives about Judy Pratt thinks it is the They then write to or ring first time such a scheme has Nicky Darlow, president of 335 calls in a month. the co-ordinator, who will the Newtown CAB said they A wide variety of people been run. It is also being discuss their needs with piloted in Takapuna and are particularly short of come to the CAB for help. them. For example, if younger volunteers. "A person earning $50,000 a Tauranga. someone wanted more The first of the kits will be "Volunteering for the CAB year can be as unable to information on benefits, he is a two way process," she manage as someone on the sent at the start of May and would find it for them. the rest will be staggered said, "in return for their unemployment benefit," she A list of local resources time, usually two or three said . over six months. Stepping will be included in the kit Out will run for about twelve hours per week, volunteers "We are not counsellors," and people can contact them have an opportunity to she said. "We are listeners months. attend the polytech who try to help people reach Community Services course. a solution themselves. We ALCOHOL PROBLEMS try not to tell people what They are trained in a to do." variety of subjects from Parents with young child­ CONCERN US ALL listening skills and problem ren can make a valuable solving to basic consumer contribution, there is room by Sharon Lippert The first is health and tennancy law. " to bring children along. It Alcohol is everyone's promotion, or the 'The CAB is a sort of is an ideal opportunity for prevention of alcohol-related signpost pointing people in problem, not just students and unemployed problems. Advertising, certain directions" she said. people to get valuable work alcoholics. That is one "Everybody has life skills experience. Students who This crane made light work of resealing message the Alcoholic such as their present Say that they can offer regardless have worked as volunteers one of Wellington High School's two Liquor Advisory When campaign, visits to of their background. Two have gone on to get good Council is trying to community groups and essential jobs in social work and law. tennis/netball courts on Tasman Street on get across. people dealing with alcohol, There are five CAB's in the April 7. bumper stickers and Among the problems Wellington region; New­ Equipment and materials were lifted by publications all help to Draw nigh caused by alcohol are wife town, Aro Valley, John­ the crane from Tasman Street, over the inform the public about good sonville, Western Suburbs and child beating, crime, fence and onto the courts. health and alcohol's bad to God (Karori) and Eastern Suburbs motor accidents and effects upon it (Miramar). Although cranes are expensive to hire, a violence. Hear Ron Stewart The Council has a large spokesman for Taylor Contracting said in The council's public It is ·a good opportunity for library of related material. at Mansfield St this case it was "the cheapest, cleanest, relations co-ordinator, Diana someone to increase their People can ring, write to or . Gospel Hall and most efficient way to do the whole Bums, said local knowledge and widen go and see the librarian job." everyone is responsible Newtown their range of skills as well there and get information as make a valuable contrib­ Without it the contractors would have had from the committed from books and articles. ution to the community, she to use the pathway up to the High School alcoholic to the once- a-year 7pm ~ay 10 Research into alcohol- said. resulting in damage to the greenery and drinker. ALAC wants us to related matters is very recognise this responsibility fencing. important, and ALAC funds and do something about the The work was well underway by 8.30am, and commissions it. The problems. and the 60 tons of asphalt required for factors causing and "We are not saying don't the one court had been laid before 3.30 encouraging people to drink TUNE UPS • ACCESSORY INSTALLATION drink," .said Ms Bums. ''We in the afternoon. are examined, as are means WIRING SYSTEMS· BATIERIES · STARTERS are saying life is better if of cutting out or reducing WIPERS - GENERATORS· ALTERNATORS A spokesman for the Education you drink less." these factors. LIGHTING Department said the job was much more Getting these messages The Council helps to fund expensive than usual because of the across is just . one of the alcohol treatment agencies, difficult access. The total cost of about Council's functions. such as the Salvation Army, Martin Lantz Auto Electrical $18,000 for resealing, remarking and Established in 1976 as the National Society on Alcohol installation of tennis and netball posts result of a Royal Telephone 897-173 and Drug Dependance and a meant that only one court could be Commission, its work can range of in and out patient I 50 Riddiford StreeL Newtown, P.O. Box I 5 I 5 I, Wellington be divided into four main upgraded at this stage, he said. by treatment centres. areas. Martine Cuff. ALAC is also working with people in industry. Its Employee Assis~ce BOYS AND GIRLS COME Programmes, whereby supervisors are trained to OUT TO PLAY ... detect employees who are longer has sleeping having problems and refer by Vikki Wilkinson Several present and past It's not a home for facilities, but houses two them to the appropriate gyms and two swimming Institute members have gone wayward children, it's on to become national and specialists, are designed to not a hostel, it's a pools. It has facilities for help companies and workers. Wellington Polytechnic waterpolo, underwater international sportspeople. sports centre for boys hockey, acrobatics, rythmic Two of their staff are in the Companies have happier and School of Fashion and Food and girls. It's the Boys gymnastics, karate and more. New 2.ealand underwater more productive employees and Girls Sports Their newest gym was built hockey team and an 'old and workers are less likely Institute on Tasman around 1967, about the same boy', David Lidderman is on to lose their jobs. HAIRDRESSING SECTION the U.S.A. gymnastics team. Street. time that girls were A Maori programme has The Hairdressing section requires Known best as the Boys introduced to the institute. Interest from investments and small amounts from been operating for a year, and Girls Institute, Senior You have to be a member trusts make up the bulk of with a special campaign clients for students' training Instructor and Projects to use the facilities, or they the lnstitute's funding Peter being introduced this year. Supervisor Peter Rackley can be hired by sports sessions. This new service is said, with their membership said a lot of people have the groups. Peter estimates their Called Kua Makona, or a offered to you on Wednesday wrong idea of what the memberships to be 2000, fees only covering the cost little is enough, one of its institute is and what it with about 3000 people of running the pools. highlights is a song of the and Thursday from 9am-1 pm. They're trying to get some stands for. passing through the centre same name. It was written Professional services at reasonable Begun in 1883 in Webb each week. These are mainly sponsorship to make the centre more affordable for by Dalvanius and is Street, the Boys Institute children who come in school . pnces. schools, and to add squash "bubbling" in the charts at was a hostel for out of town, parties or in their own time. courts to their facilities. the moment. usually farming boys, to Ages range from three and The upstairs area is A little is enough is the It a half for swimming and two stay at while in the city. presently being used by the Call now for your appointment to: had dormitories and a for gymnastics, to adults. message a lot of people are Polytechnic to run a Labour covered pool that was used But most members stop hearing, and hopes Kath Perkins tel. 850-559 Department T.A.P.S. through as a gymnasium. The Tasman attending when they are ALAC, heeding. Access scheme. ext 8771 Street bujlding, est. 1949, no about 18, he said. 5· Association, the level of means paying staff at dependency of the patients adequate rates". Disputes in halfway houses is The Porirua Hospital ©ll@@®o~o@@l increasing. This, he Directorate, responsible for System further believes, is a national- trend. the administration of @@lw@m He illustrated the situation halfway houses, have argued keep developing at Hanson House that free accommodation plus by referring to established food and costs make up the disables Phone halfway houses. supervisor's salary. Hanson "Patients at the Porirua But hospital board member 850-559 hostel require a substantial Don Borrie agrees that pay amputee 899-110 nursing imput ", he said, rates at halfway houses are House "and although nursing care inadequate, and that they do by Pepe Walker Wellington Polytechnic there is not round- the - not reflect the responsibility Adversity has left Student Association secretary clock, staff are there until of the job. Christine Rose-veare said FIREWOOD late at night". "Hanson House will present stage-three carpentry that WePSA had approached closed apprentice Nicholas by Alex Coubrougb According to Wevers, there patient needs greater than both the Labour Department Bags and loose. is a tendency for health second cook designation", Penrice, with the only and Social Welfare, but had Hanson Street half- authorities to see halfway he said. "Professional care is things be really needs . been unable to help Large load dis­ way house was houses more as a way of still required at halfway ·· determination and Nicholas. counts. scheduled to open at saving money, thl!Il as houses". guts. Minimal public transport Home delivered the beginning of therapeutic resources.He says He believes that for the Last October Nicholas felt and a shortage of reasonably April, but disputes it is important that if most part staff at halfway a pain in his leg. Within priced accommadation close arising over staff pay patients are moved into the houses have been a forgotten two weeks doctors diagnosed to polytech created problems Tel. 897-060 rates have kept it community for group. bone cancer and Nicholas' for all apprentices Christine rehabilitation, their standard leg was amputated. said. Anytime. closed. of care must be maintained. Obtaining transport When it does open, Hanson Homeless It was the only way they "It is a matter of pay!ng by Janette Hurrell could save his life. concessions for students is House will be one of several nursmg rates for doing currently a national student Porirua Hospital halfway A cardboard and wood "It happened that fast and I Photographic Restora­ nursing duties", he said. didn't have a choice", priority. houses, which operate as shack appeared in the Usually apprentices work tions: We restore old Members of the PSA at Polytechnic courtyard Nicholas said. rehabilitation centres for Porirua Hospital have voted . overtime to get extra cash to photographs, 135 Riddiford psychiatric patients. The on April 5. Life since . then has tested against shifting to Hanson Nicholas: ·make life more tolerable. St (above Warnocks), phone houses aim to integrate House until a proper salary It wasn't the abode of a Nicholas can only work 40 patients into society by homeless student, but similar *It's not only having to 898-622. scale has been negotiated. find an extra $62 a week for hours a week. teaching them day-to-day The Hotel and Hospital to the conditions in which "He is an extreme case and Wanted to sell: Formica living skills. many pt;ople in the third fares after the Labour Workers Union covers hostel Department axed apprentice highlights difficulties facing dining table, four chairs, The Wellington Hospital world live. all apprentices coming to supervisors in other halfway travel allowances last year, $150. - Board advertised for a houses around the The shack was built by a tech," Christine said. Ph 882-543 group of Polytech students regardless of circumstances. fulltime, liveain supervisor Wellington area. with the help *It's not getting up at 6am for Hanson House in March. Union organiser John of a Catholic lay chaplain: · with an artificial leg not yet The staffing dispute arose Ryall believes the hospital Their aim was to draw mastered, and having to because although psychiatric board is "trying to do it on attention to the plight of hitchhike to the nearest train nursing qualifications are the cheap" by paying required for the job, the pay homeless people in the third station at Paraparaumu. supervisors at second cook *It's not riding a crowded would be less for the rates. The union is not world. They distributed informa­ train and bus to Polytech. supervisor than registered opposed to the tion on the third worlds *It's more a feeling that nursing rates. ' decentralising of psychiatric homeless folk and ran a soup he's fighting a lonely battle In fact, the supervisor patient care and moving it kitchen outside the and no one really seems to would be paid at the rate of a out into the community,but Shed 11 second grade cook.$8 .30 an shack, serving beans and care. Newtown Community Mr Ryall said he is Centre ' hour. rice, the diet of many Nicholas said that while in concerned that the patients poor people in the third hospital a representative of Cnr Rintoul & Colombo Sts Matt Pine - Selected works According to Francis have adequate care,and," that 1965-1985 Wevers of the Public Service world. the Department of Social Phone 894 786 Welfare told him that once the operation was over he Karate -- every Monday, would be eligible for Wednesday 5.30-8pm. POL YTECH EXPANDS assistance from the by Karina Barrymore At this stage it is not said. department Care and Craft Opening up poly- known how many extra The people on these When he called on the Every Tuesday techs to unemployed places will be at Wellington schemes are "targeted department after he left 9.30-1 .00 Spot On hospital however, it was a people is a good idea, .Polytech. disadvantaged" and usually Subjects will depend on the have a lower level of different story. After School Care -Electrical says Wellington Poly­ institute's facilities and the "They gave me nothing", Weekdays 3-5.30 technic principal, Bob education. area's demand Mr The unemployed people on Nicholas said. Because he for all Bubendorfer. Bubendorfer said. the T APs scheme (which is was able to walk. they Free legal advice Mr Bubendorfer describes "Specific areas or towns being replaced by Access) refused his application for Wednesdays at 7.30pm ~ome appliance Polytech's involvement in have needs for different had fitted in well at the disability assistance. Saturdays at 9.30am repairs the $3.25 million training skills. The area and the polytech and had very scheme announced by facilities available will positive attitudes, Mr Nicholas is angry and feels Citizen's Advice Bureau government recently as "the reflect what courses will be Bubendorfer said. he was misled. He now has Open 9.30-4.30 86 Kent Tee right thing." offered," he said. The new courses will be a lawyer who is a family weekdays As long as staff and One of the difficulties with phased in over the next 12 friend acting for him. Pti 842 8'36 financial needs are met he unemployed people coming months. Aikido says the polytechs will be into the polytech system Expanding the traditional Nicholas has applied to Thursdays 6-7.30 able to handle the additional has been a noticeable drain 40 week study year was one Polytech for a hardship students. on counselling and health way to cope with the grant, but says he was told Golden Age Inc Thirty million dollars will services by these students. increased role. that apprentices are second Thursday be allocated to New Zealand's "They use a "There are another 12 "responsible for them- every month 22 polytechs to pay for the disproportionate amount of weeks in the year, apart from selves". phone 898 773 or extra 3000 full-time and health and counselling a couple for holidays, that 894608 4000 part-time students. services," Mr Bubendorfer could be used. And a two­ He was told that if he E. SILESTEAN shift system where classes wished to apply for the Babysitting Co­ & SON LTD. were staggered during the day grant, then he could make a operative KIA HIWA RA! KIA HIWA RA! written application stating Evenings Manufacturers of: and into the evening were • "National" Household possibilities," said Mr the extent of his disability. Phone Janet 859 714 · Candles Bubendorfer. • Dining Candles Ka po! Ka po! Ka ao! Ka ao! Learning road Plunket Morning Tea • Church Candles Ka huri te manu ki te awatea Thursdays, 1Oam at the • Decorative Candles WELLINGTON safety skills Brooklyn Resource Centre, • Hotel & Restaurant Tihei mauri ora 36 Jefferson St Candles CHAIR CO. by Nicky Baird Phone 844 299 • Birthday Candles E te iwi tena koutou i a tatiu tini aitua With the May school AND kua huri ki tua o te arai EST 1984 holidays just around kua ngaro ki Tuawhakarere. the corner, children at National Art Gallery Wellington South PERFUMED HAND CRAFTED He whakaatu tenei ki a koutou Viewing-- Greg Burke's CANDLES Kua timata ta tatou reo irerangi Kindergarten are Video ARril 8-May 17 learning some basic WN-846*"'"'" 806 Maori ate Ratapu te toru o nga ra e road safety skills. George Chance 15 Courtenay Place Mei, mo nga marama e nia, mutu Kindy teachers Pat Watkins Photographs April 9-May 24 P O Box 6024 Wellington rawa atu ate 28 o nga ra o Hune. 'fllm Wmdl§ol!' and Helen Honders are Ka timata ate 8:00 o nga haoru i te running road safety lessons ata o te Ratapu, aka haere tonu nga chafur a.vailiwlie as part of the kindergarten's now mbwi Play Safe programme. whakamoemiti, nga mihimihi, nga "We're reading books with Institute waiata i te roanga o tau a ata. TABLES & CHAIRS them and teaching the MADE TO ORDER children how to cross roads TE UPOKO O TE IKA with an adult," said Pat Barbell Club "We hope the children will 70 Tasr11an St Maori Radio 1161 khz May-June Rimu, kauri, matai remember to play on grass Weekends 8:00am-1 :OOpm andjarrah and pavements and not on Weight-training Weekdays 6:3Dam-12:00pm demolition timber the roads." Weight-lifting Patron:Mayor Jim Belich The teachers are running the programme themselves, Body-building This station is operated by Nga Phone: 844-213 although the police and Kaiwhakapumau (Te Reo Welling­ 287 Cuba St (showroom) traffic departments have Phone: 859-849 ton Maori Language Board.) 8-1 O Tonks Ave (w/shop) provided some resource material. .... A/H 788-382 7 Fine future for lnverlochy House Disturbing by Rochelle Joseph film to see , The New Zealand Academy of Fine by Robert Cairns · Arts is developing Wellington's -, Platoon is a powerful and Inverlochy House into an Arts disturbing film which focuses on Centre and Studio Complex. the plight of the ordinary soldier Developments were begun last year and in Vietnam. have already cost $67,000 said the The brutally exhausting patrols they had to Academy's Director, Lesleigh Salinger. She endure, through jungles sown with mines, estimates that at least another $100,000 is booby traps and hidden ambushes. needed before the centre can become fully An environment that quickly turned young operational. men into emotionless, cynical killers, Salinger said the purpose of the centre is often leading them to tum on one another basically educational. Wellington needs a or commit atrocities against innocent course where people can receive a proper Vietnamese villagers. education in the fine arts, she said. The film's story centres around a young "The centre will enable the Academy to idealistic soldier Chris Taylor (Charlie fullfill one of its prime objectives, the Sheen). promotion of study , practice and cultivation Unlike his fellow soldiers, who are mostly of fine art." conscripts drafted from black, rural or poorer The centre will also provide for a wider sections of American society, Chris is a range of cultural activities. 'There will be volunteer who dropped out of college to room for seminars, lectures and maybe fight in Vietnam. . several film evenings. At a later stage we He has come to Vietnam looking for some are hoping to hold small exhibitions and purpose to life and war, but he finds only there are plans for an art reference library," destruction and anguish. said Salinger. Chris becomes influenced by two sergeants, There is also a possibility of rooms being whose behaviour represents contrasting leased to arts bodies and other groups such attitudes to the war. as musicians. An artist in residence scheme Sergeant Elias (William Dafoe),an and short term courses for secondary school experienced and humane soldier readily pupils may also eventuate. . admits the futility of the war. Inverlochy House began in the last century Sergeant Barnes (fom Berenger) however, as the residence of a Wellington business is a ruthless, gung-ho killer, who fanatically man, T K MacDonald. believes in the war, yet whose military It had many rooms including a library and experience and expertise is often his the grounds with gardens and stables, wretched men's only hope of survival. stretched from the Terrace to Willis Street. Chris Taylor must try to reconcile- the By 1979 it had been reduced to nine flats. different views of these two men and come to At that stage the house came under the threat his own conclusion. of demolition to make way for the Regency This film gives you some idea what it Hotel. must have been like to fight and die in the A 'Save Inverlochy House' campaign was scorching heat of an insect-infested jungle, laun ched by students at Victoria University. to endure monsoons which turned battlefields As a result of this the plans for the Regency ino quagmires of mud and rain, or to walk were modified and the hc,,use was saved. into an ambush. In l980, Mr Arthur Williams of Williams It is a realistic and moving account of what Development Holdings Ltd, leased the house war does to men. to a trust for the Academy. "We now pay a Platoon is destined to become something peppercorn rent of $1.00 a year ," said of a classic. Salinger. It is one of the finest anti-war films since Salinger describes the house as still Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western magnificent "but it needs a lot of damned Front." costly repair work". Labour, comprised of working bees and contracted professional tradespeople, is lnverlochy House being supervised by the Academy's executive officer, Peter Read. The Academy NEW POEMS FROM SPIKE is relying on its general funds, fundraising OPEN HEART UNIVERSITY · by adds background, emphasizing the realism activities and various donations, for the Spike Milligan. Reviewer Buzz of the poetry created. financing of the repair work. Hope. Despite the complexities of the thoughts Now lnverlochy House, with its colourful This thought-provoking book behind the words, they have been simply past, will be set for an even more brightly follows another successful written. Concise and often saying something painted future. All going well this should about Milligan's relationships, that many begin sometime this year, said Salinger. collection of poetry by Spike people would relate to and enjoy. Milligan called Dreams of a Many of the poems appealed for one reason inhumane' treatment of its lower classes, Scorpion . or another, and it would be impossible for The Fatal Shore feared that these unfortunate wretches might It contrasts greatly with previous zany, me to favour . any one. Some created a mental The Fatal. Shore, reviewed by one day rebel and overthrow the established comical war publications. Milligan is picture, such as "When the great tree loomed Robert Cairns. Australian born art order. renowned for the idiocy portrayed in his from high falling, Her green head pitching critic and author of "The Shock of Hughes relates powerfully, passionately and children's book Bad Jelly the Witch and down till the great body lay still straight ... " programmes like The Goon Show . the New'", Robert Hughes has vividly the terrible hardships these people and "Go away girl, go away and let me pack produced an outstanding new book. suffered at sea and as convicts in Australia. The poetry in Open Heart University my dreams, now where did 1 put those The squalor, filth and misery of their explores the complexities of feeling and yesteryears made up with broken seams ... " The Fatal Shore deals with Georgian thought, reality and fantasy. They reveal a England's plan to rid herself of her criminal conditions was matched only by savagery of While the humour portrayed in others often their captors. deeper, more perceptive side of a man who ended with a cynical twist, ie "Bloody, classes and create a convict colony in has suffered the pain of psychiatric illness. Australia Hughes graphic descriptions of floggings Battered, Tattered thing. Which is body, and executions are !lX>ving and horrifying. Milligan's intelligence and sensitivity are which is wing. What kind of bird, it's hard From the mid eighteen century to the mid­ exposed for all to see, along with the hurts, nineteenth, Britain dispatched about 160,000 But the Fatal Shore also intelligently to say. As you lay squashed, on the motor questioning and melancholy he has people to Australia as convicts. discusses the legacy of the convict society way. But the marks in your blood are sharp and the way it has determined the experienced. This is evident in the poem and clear. A Dunlop 'safety' tyre, has just One reason for this Hughes informs us was Welcome home· which reads, "Unaware of that Georgian England, with its grossly development of modem Australian society. been here. "This makes a morbid topic more my crime they stood me in the dock. I lighthearted, preventing the poems was sentenced to life ...... without her .. becoming too gloomy. Strange trial. No Judge. No Jury. I wonder I rate this book highly. It is compelling IF YOU ARE FIT who my visitors will be." reading for anyone who enjoys either The poet's opening lines "I am the pen, laughing or crying with the poet. Many and train correctly, you will without me this paper cannot live" is would feel empathy towards Milligan's hopefully not.need our assistance. indicative of the vivid imagery he has confusion. It evokes a variety of emotions, Even the fittest athletes sometimes created on paper. Enhanced further through both happy and sad. pull muscles, however, and after the graphic illustrations by Laura Milligan. His quest to preserve wildlife, conserve you have seen your doctor The drawings range from the abstract buildings and the need to solve probelms come and see us. shadows accompanying Finale , to the caused by . over-population, indicates the detailed beauty in Eurolove , complimenting We have a big range of Future and poet's mental battle with the world. I for the words written. The personal touch one would like to learn more about this Supple Support sports supports achieved because some . poems are hand intriguing man whose deep concern and that cover nost injuries. w·. -,· written, makes a pleasant change from sensitivity for all living things comes We even have a I..~'· . type. I appreciated being told time and through strongly in his poems. 1 places events occurred as it private fitting room. . -~- • : ;· THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SPORT WITH SPORT SUPPORT [M)@@@@[ru~@[J is published by the journalism ASHLEIGH COURT course at ORIGINAL ART• PLANTS The team: Nicky Baird, Robert Cairns, Wellington Polytechnic PHARAMCY DECO·STYLE POTTERY Alex Couborough, Sue Eden.Buzz Lychgate Shopping CLOTHING • JEWELRY Hope, Rochelle Joseph, Sharon, Editor: Brian Joyce Lippert, Christopher Macann, Ann_ Newtown 148 Vivian St. Phone 842 ·499 Advertising: Alison Burdett Tuesday-Saturday Newbery, Jeni Porter, Vikki Wilkinson, PHONE 899-559 Maria Veronese, JohnWalsh. 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